Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 23 Rice Fish

Li Xiang said, "560 per pound, free shipping by SF Express. In our county, it's usually more than per pound. If you meet Europeans who come to collect it, it will be more expensive."

After all, black truffles can be sold for more than 11,000 kilograms in Europe. Of course, Europeans are more picky and only want those with good appearance.

The other party was very straightforward. He asked for Li Xiang’s bank account number and immediately transferred 8400 yuan!
Li Xiang: "..."

This is really a great honor to meet an old friend, so cool!
"Give me the address and I'll ship it today."

Li Xiang is also a straightforward person. After receiving the address, he immediately told his grandmother about it and rode his tricycle into the city. In addition to 15 kilograms of black truffles, Li Xiang also gave some small mushrooms as a small gift.

Compared with chicken mushrooms, goose egg mushrooms and bigfoot mushrooms, small mushrooms are cheaper and more abundant, so they are good as a bonus.

Grandma was also very happy when she heard that picking mushrooms could make so much money. In fact, some villagers also went to pick mushrooms, but their senses were not as sharp as Li Xiang's, so their harvest was not as big as Li Xiang's.

Unless you bring an adult sow into the mountains, but once the pig enters the mountains, its wildness will be aroused and people may not be able to hold it back. If it runs away, you will suffer a big loss.

But the same cannot be done for piglets, as they are not yet in estrus and are not sensitive to the smell of the fungus.

After Li Xiang set foot in the extraordinary world, his vision, hearing, and sense of smell have greatly improved. Within ten meters, he can tell whether there is anything with just a sniff.

I was a little unfamiliar with it at first, but later I became more and more experienced and could keenly identify the smell of pig arch mushrooms.

In addition, Li Xiang has very good eyesight and night vision, and can clearly see some dark places covered by grass and trees. As the pig arch fungus grows, it will push the soil above it into tiny irregular cracks.

There was no SF Express in the town, so Li Xiang went to the county town, got it done on the same day, and took some supplies home.

It's definitely not worth coming here and going back empty-handed.

He bought beef and pork, and added some spices for braising the meat. Then he saw a new type of colored steel barn on the market. It was blue and barrel-shaped, and very beautiful.

The outer shell of this kind of barn is very hard and is made up of layers. When assembled, it looks like an oversized gasoline barrel. The store owner said that it can prevent mildew, moisture, keep fresh, and prevent insects and rats. There is also a grain opening with a sealed lid at the bottom of the barn.

Li Xiang thought it was good, so he asked about the price. After some bargaining, he spent 550 yuan to buy a three-layer one with a diameter of 90 centimeters and a height of about meters, which could hold about kilograms of grain.

Because the late rice was about to be harvested, his family had an old-style granary, which was bought when his father was alive. It was made of prefabricated cement panels and was also assembled. It could be fitted together tightly and was very durable. It had not broken down to this day, but it was rather heavy and large in size, and could hold almost two thousand kilograms of grain.

But now my grandmother is alone at home, and she only cultivates about six or seven mu of paddy field, and can harvest at most 300 kilograms. It is very inconvenient to use such a large granary.

That kind of cement prefabricated granary does not have a grain opening at the bottom. Every time it is opened, the upper prefabricated panel needs to be moved away. It is okay if there is a lot of grain inside, but if there is not much, you have to jump in.

This three-layer colored steel barrel granary is particularly suitable. In addition, this store also has larger models with four, five, and six layers, some with larger diameters, so you can buy more when you need them in the future.

After the barns were dismantled and stacked together, they were only about 50 centimeters high. They were placed in the compartment of a tricycle, and Li Xiang drove home.

When I got home, grandma had already cooked the red-eyed rabbit. She used most of the rabbit to make three dishes, and the remaining half was pickled with salt and kept in the refrigerator.

The three dishes are: spicy rabbit head, spicy and sour rabbit cubes, and fresh pot rabbit.

Especially the fresh pot rabbit, which is spicy, fresh and fragrant, and can be said to be a famous dish in Sichuan cuisine.

Sichuan people eat rabbits in many ways, and each dish is fresh, spicy and refreshing, making people unable to stop eating. It can be said that Sichuan people are one of the provinces that eat rabbit meat the most. According to statistics, Sichuan people eat nearly 3 million rabbits every year, an average of 9 rabbits per second.

There is a cruel saying in Sichuan Province: Rabbits are so cute, you must eat more of them.

Even a new profession has been derived - "rabbit taster".

There was a news report that a young man born in the 80s became a professional rabbit taster, eating more than 2000 rabbit heads a year and earning more than 30 yuan a year. It can be said to be a magical job to earn so much by eating the food you like.

Li Xiang naturally enjoyed the meal very much.

Grandma has bad teeth, so the spicy rabbit head is specially prepared for Li Xiang, and it is also one of Li Xiang’s favorite foods.

He didn't use chopsticks or spoons or anything like that. He just used his hands to pry open the rabbit's mouth and started biting it. He didn't throw away the mandible, as he could use it to dig out the other meat in the rabbit's head.

This is a bit like eating hairy crabs, using the calves to push out the meat from the thighs, which is similar in nature.

Before going to bed at night, Li Xiang went to see the pregnant old tabby cat. Her belly was now very big, and she was lazily sleeping in the new cat bed that Li Xiang had built for her. When she saw Li Xiang coming, the tabby cat opened her eyes and meowed twice.

"Go to bed early, and don't catch mice at night, so as not to upset the fetus." Li Xiang touched the tabby cat's head, not knowing whether it understood him or not.

This old cat is considered an elderly mother. Li Xiang recalled that he has kept it at home for about eight or nine years. The lifespan of a cat is usually 12-15 years. Li Xiang was a little worried that it would not be able to survive.

Li Xiang decided to find an opportunity to sterilize the old cat after the litter was born, which would be good for it, because for middle-aged and elderly female cats aged 7-11, pregnancy is a huge burden on themselves and can easily lead to miscarriage, stillbirth and dystocia.

After comforting the old cat, Li Xiang went to the backyard to check on the two big yellow dogs. He was not a person who favored one over the other. When he was building the cat's bed, the two dogs wagged their tails beside him, obviously wanting a new bed as well, so Li Xiang also built a spacious dog shed for them with bamboo.

The bamboo has been roasted with fire. Firstly, some places need to be shaped by fire. Secondly, the insect eggs and moisture in the bamboo are removed. A hard carbonized particle layer is also formed on the surface, which is insect-proof, anti-corrosive, antibacterial and durable.

Dogs are used to guard the house, so they are kept outside at night, while cats are used to catch mice, so they are kept inside the house at night.

It is not convenient for the old cat to catch mice now, but even if it lies quietly at home, the mice dare not make trouble.

The next day, it was a sunny day. After breakfast, Li Xiang carried a bamboo basket and a shovel and went to see his own rice fields under the guidance of his grandmother.

Many of the family's fields were abandoned. Li Xiang had not been home for several years, so he did not know where the rice was planted. What's more, if he made a mistake and harvested someone else's rice, that would be bad. So grandma took them to identify them.

After walking for about twenty minutes, we arrived at a paddy field with golden rice ears.

"Grandma, is this our rice? It's growing really well." The rice ears were full and heavy, bending the rice stalks. It was time to harvest. If we delayed for a few more days, everything would fall down.

"From here to the ridge over there, the rest does not belong to our family." Grandma pointed to the area.

"Grandma, do you also raise rice fish in the rice fields?"

When Li Xiang was inspecting his own "territory", he was surprised to find that there were occasionally fish as long as a palm, or even thirty or forty centimeters long, swimming in the paddy fields. He couldn't help but feel very surprised.

　Thanks to "Xiao You" for the monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)